2020 in Review: The Movement Will Not Be Canceled

Palestine Legal has released a new report analyzing trends in the censorship of the U.S. movement for Palestinian rights in 2020, in the context of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Palestine advocacy and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Palestine Legal responded to 213 incidents of suppression of U.S.-based Palestine advocacy over the course of 2020, totaling 1,707 suppression incidents between 2014 and 2020.

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NYT Article on Campus Palestine Advocacy Erases Scope of Anti-Palestinian Attacks

NYT Article on Campus Palestine Advocacy Erases Scope of Anti-Palestinian Attacks

Last month, the New York Times published an article “What Zoom Does to Campus Conflicts Over Israel and Free Speech” that featured Palestinian CUNY Law student Nerdeen Kiswani, who has also been a Palestine Legal client. Palestine Legal Michael Ratner Justice Fellow Amira Mattar issued her own thoughts on the missing context from the piece.

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Dima Khalidi in The Intercept on Zoom Censorship

Dima Khalidi in The Intercept on Zoom Censorship

The Intercept published a comprehensive report on Zoom’s censorship of academic events on Palestine at San Francisco State University, NYU and the University of Hawai’i at Manoa, quoting Palestine Legal director Dima Khalidi.

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Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Censor SF State Palestine Class

Zoom, Facebook and YouTube Censor SF State Palestine Class

Three tech giants censored a discussion featuring Palestinian, Black, Jewish and South African activists at San Francisco State University today, after pro-Israel advocacy groups complained. The open classroom event “Whose Narratives?: Gender, Justice & Resistance” featured Palestinian activist Leila Khaled and was scheduled to take place at 12:30 PDT before being erased from Zoom, Facebook and YouTube.

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